The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19

| good, the department of agriculture will
| make up collection for display there.
A negro by the name of Berry Chesley,
while cleaning ont a well on DIR. l.. ). Full
! lers plantation near Lisbon, discovered a
| kind of gas at the bottom and while climb
! ing out he fell back and suffocated. Sew
eral hours We're spent in getting the BODY
out, and in the attempt several others came
very near meeting his fate.
Commissions have been issued TO the fol-
| lowing officers of the State volunteer
troops: W. w. Hughes First Lieutenant,
Chris. H. Peake, Second Lieutenant, and
Laurens G. Young j unior Lsecond Lieuten-
ant, of the johnson Rifles Of Union; Benz
| H. Rutledge, Jr, Major Of the I'd battalion
of infantry, 4th brigade Charleston; X. 5.
| Upper Captain of the Carolina Rifles,
! Charleston.
Thursday night John D. Keitt died at his
residence, about thirteen miles from Orange
burg, in Lyons Township, on the "Old
| State Road. Mr.. Kett was the son OF
| William Keitt, and cousin of Congressman
Lawrence II. Keitt, under whom he fought
| during the lage war. John D. Keitt at the
| time of the war owned 10 slaves and $1,000
acres of select lands He married Miss I.
| G.. Wolfe, who survives him.
The cotton factory question at Camden,
| like Banquo's ghost, viii not down, but is
continually bopbing up Many business men
| are 10 see l1t ScilL lACOCooibJ
! tor such an enterprise, In view OF the de-
mands that have been made upon the Cam
| den market by factory towns and the eX-
| cellent prospects for good cotton crop are
causing the agitators OF the factory to take
| courage and at least make one more de-
terlnined effort 10 do something on this ilne
1t is reported that few nights ago
negro in Camden county, in the 1yiersvllle
neighborhood was taken from his home and
| SaUaralU Hneroa1 fxy "a hand of DaGyP1
| The negro is said to be quiet and peaceable
| man, and the cause Of such conduct is a
mystery to his neighbors 1t is supposed by
! many that the parties who were engaged in
the whipping were all colored. but as yet
nothing definite is gnowll One negro has
been arrested on sp 7picion, and bound over
to answer the charge. Every effort will be
made to solve the mystery.
Last March, by Executive Order No56
issued from the Adiutant. Generals office
the.Lee Light Infantry, If Chester, spent
two days i'll guarding Nicely, prisoner ac-
cused OF rape and threatened with lynch
ing Capt. Giles J. Patterson has presented
claim under the act of 1888 for compensa-
ton to these soldiers al the rate of So day.
| For twenty three men the amount would be
500. Unfortunately no provision was made
in the last appropriation bill for such claims
and this one cannot be paid until an appro-
priation is made. The fund for general pur-
poses within the coutrol of the Adjutant
General is only $500 and this is either
already expended Or due, 'f
A large addition is being made to the cot
ton mill at Pelzer, 10 miles from Greenv VILE
| A new cotton warehOussjs also to be built
The addition of lnAl numbe' two will
| make the Pelzer Mill one of the largest in
the whole South. When the new mill is
completed Pelzer will have in use $4,000
spindles and / 100 leom;, employing $50 ope-
ratives, and consuming every year eighteen
thousand bales of cotton The mill is al
ready the largest1in that section, employing
at present over 800 operatives Capt e. A.
Smyth is its President, and the mill is own
| ed almost entirely by Charleston men. 1t
is understood that the capital will shortly
be increased from $4,000 t. S60),0J.
Henry d. Malloy, A. G. Kollock, Henry
2. Duncan, A, A. Pollock and I. P. Hamer,
| of Cheraw, and w. A. Hinshaw, of Clio,
have applied to the Secretary of State for
a charter for tie Cheraw Iron Works, and
commission for the organization of the
company with these gentlemen as board
of corporators, was issued Friday. The
general purposes of the organization en-
brace the casting apd lnoulding of iron and
the manufacture anaPepair of ironware and
machinery. The capital stock will be $40,
900 in four hundred shares of $50 each The
corporators write that they propose organ
izing Immediately. some half the amount
subscribed will be paid on or before Nov. 1.
and the remainder at such time as may be
| called for. :, ~
At Greenville about midnight Thursday
night, just as a negro torchlight procession
in celebration of the election of Capt.
Townes as Mayor was lighting up, Samuel
| Williams. colored shoemaker, was shot in
the right eye the ball missing the brain and
lodging in the righta temple. Williams was
strong Rowiey worker i'm the campaign,
L. y. I rI.os :
rious as a leader of the Hoover's Co-opera-
tive Workers, and who is a big TONNES
man, shot him because he was shouting,
'Hurrah for RowIeyln Other parties deny
this story. Minor. was arrested, and is in
Jail. Williams is out of danger. There
was much talk tor awhile about a contest OF
the recent election, which was declared for
TONNES by sixtee7t plurality. The matter,
however, has been settled by the managers,
and there will be no contest.
A letter has been received by the NeIUs
and Courier from McClellanville under
date of Sept. IL, from which the following
extracts are mase.$fthe statements are in
reference to the South Santee river rice
lands: ''On the day ofAug. II the freshet
struck the upper, -fishlS of the river, on
which were promises of a fifty-bushel crop,
and in n few days more than one-half OF the
plantations were entirely covered. Still il
was hoped that the waters would recede be
lore very serious, damages should occur, as
the freshet was not a large one. But the
singular combination of a perigee moon
with very high, east winds for several
weeks, threw up enormous tides,
stopping the outflow for a week or more,
and 50 effecting the total loss of the crops OF
four o. five upper places, save, perhaps, q
tithing of unmarketable rice. Thence down
ward as theriver widens, the loss is in proper
tion TO the situation. Four or five OF the lower
places are nalarmed, leaving, on general
average, not more than half, if so much, OF
the entire crop of the South Santee stand
, ing. The total destruction by the two
, freshets of June and July last year had put
the planters in great doubt as to any pros
, pect of resuming work again, but one by
, one they were enabled to return to their
fields, and it was hoped that the heavy allu.
vial deposit of last year and the long rest OF
the land would retrieve their losses. Never
before were greater efforts or more energy
exhibited, and rarely a finer prospect in
view than that seen up to Aug. 17.n